Dan 9:24-27
NASB "Seventy
weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish
the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for
iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and
prophecy and to anoint the most holy {place.} "So you are to know and
discern {that} from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince {there will be} seven weeks and
sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in
times of distress. "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be
cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come
will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end {will come} with a
flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
"And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the
middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;
and on the wing of abominations {will come} one who makes desolate, even
until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the
one who makes desolate."

In this prophecy, Daniel is told the exact date that the Messiah would come
to redeem Israel & the world. The Timetable starts “from the issuing of a
decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem”. This event happened on 14th March,
B.C. 445 when the king of Persia Artaxerxes Longitmanus issued a decree that
Nehemiah was to return to Israel & rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The
Prophecy on 6th April, A.D. 32 when The Messiah Jesus entered Jerusalem in
Psalm Sunday.

Daniel is told of 3 timelines

Seven weeks - 49 years,
until the city and its walls are rebuilt

69 weeks (7 plus 62), 483
years from the decree, until Messiah the Prince appears

A final 70th week to
complete the prophecy

The Hebrew word for “Weeks” (shabuwa
or שבדצ)
actually means seven or period of seven & can mean 7 days (Week) or 7
years (Sabbatical Year). So in this passage the term weeks should be read as
70 Sabbatical Years or 70 X 7 years. The Nation of Israel at the time of
Daniel was using a calendar based on 12 lunar months of 30 days or 360 day
years with an extra month added every few years to reset the calendar also
known as a “Prophetic Year”. The 70 X 7 must be based on this 360 day
Prophetic Year (see also Rev 11:3 where 1260 days = 42 months = 3 ½ years)

Seven weeks and sixty-two weeks

The first part of this
timeline called “seven weeks” are 7 X 7 or 49 years refers to the actual
rebuilding of Jerusalem that took 49 years

The
second part of this prophecy called “seven weeks and sixty-two weeks”
Includes the above 7 weeks plus the 62 weeks for a total of 69 weeks or
69 Prophetic Years. According to Sir Robert Anderson in his book
Daniel in the Critic's Den these 69 Prophetic Years add up to
173,880 and when recalculated into Julian Years of 365 days ends on 6th
April, A.D. 32 or that exact day that Jesus entered Jerusalem on Psalm
Sunday

The Julian date of that 10th Nisan
was Sunday the 6th April, A.D. 32.1 What then was the length of the
period intervening between the issuing of the decree to rebuild
Jerusalem and this public advent of" Messiah the Prince "- between the
14th March, B.C. 445, and the 6th April, A.D. 32? THE INTERVAL WAS
EXACTLY AND TO THE VERY DAY 173,880 DAYS, OR SEVEN TIMES SIXTY-NINE
PROPHETIC YEARS OF 360 DAYS.

From B.C.
445 to AD. 32 is 476 years 273,740 days (476 X 365)+116 days for
leap years. And from 14th March to 6th April (reckoned inclusively
according to Jewish practice) is 24 days. But
173,740+116+24=173,880. And 69 X 7X 360= 173,880.
Chapter 9 Daniel in the Critic's Den

The 70th week

The last week or the 70th
week is still to come & refers to the 7 years of the tribulation period
where The “Prince” or Anti-Christ will Stop the daily sacrifice & declare
himself God. After this, he will attack the nation of Israel & finish the
prophecy

Notes on Daniel’s vision of World history from Cyrus to the Time of the End

Dan 11:1

"In the first year of Darius the Mede, I arose to be an
encouragement and a protection for him.
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Dan 11:2

"And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are
going to arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more
riches than all {of them;} as soon as he becomes strong through
his riches, he will arouse the whole {empire} against the realm
of Greece. NASB

Daniel is told this vision in “first year of Darius the
Mede” or 539 BC & covers the next 200 years of the future. The prophecy is
so accurate that all liberal atheists believe that the Book of Daniel had to
be written much later. Their so-called “Logic” runs as follows:

There is no God because we say there is none.

Without a God, no one can predict the future.

The
Book of Daniel predicts the future so perfectly that if had to be
written long after Daniel was dead because of # 1 & 2 above.

According to this prophecy, there would
be three more Persian kings & then a forth on would arise that would
make war on Greece with a very large army (“arouse the whole empire”).
The King of Persia when Daniel receives the vision is Cyrus
(550-530BC) so the prophecy begins with his successors. The 3 kings the succeed Cyrus are

The forth King to stand up would then be Xerxes
486-465BC. In 480, Xerxes attacked the Greek Mainland & began a 200 year
rivalry between the two powers ending only when Alexander the Great defeated
Persia. Notice the prophecy never says that there will only be 4 Persian
kings, only that 4 will arise – it then skips the rest Persian history.

Dan 11:3

"And a mighty king will
arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he
pleases. NASB

Dan 11:4

"But as soon as he has
arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward
the four points of the compass, though not to his {own}
descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded,
for his sovereignty will be uprooted and {given} to others
besides them. NASB

With verse 3, the prophecy jumps to 336 BC & speaks of

A mighty king who does as he
pleases

When he is at the peek of his live,
his empire is split up into 4 smaller empires none of which are
given to any of his offspring.

In 336 BC, a man takes the throne in Greece. Within 13
years, he will conquer Persia as well as the rest of the Known world. This
man was Alexander the Great. & in his 33rd year of life he will
die & his vast empire would be split up between his 4 generals & his only
offspring will be killed thus answering this part of the prophecy perfectly.

Dan
11:5

"Then the king of the South will grow
strong, along with {one} of his princes who will gain
ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain
{will be} a great dominion {indeed.}
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The king of the South here is Ptolemy I (323-285BC).
The “Prince” here is Seleucus I (323-281BC) who worked under Ptolemy I to
defeat Antigonus I (315-307BC). Soon after the Defeat of Antigonus I,
Seleucus I grew stronger & stronger until he became even stronger then
Ptolemy I. Thus, Verse 5 answered perfectly as usual with biblical
prophecy.

Dan
11:6

"After some years they will form an
alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will
come to the king of the North to carry out a peaceful
arrangement. But she will not retain her position of
power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will
be given up, along with those who brought her in and the
one who sired her as well as he who supported her in
{those} times. NASB

Antiochus II (261-246BC) who was forced to divorce his
wife Laodiceia. In 246 BC, Ptolemy II died & Antiochus II quickly divorced
Berenice & took back his first wife. Soon after, Antiochus II died. So just
as the Bible said, neither king prospered over the marriage, Berenice never
kept her power & was given up.

Dan
11:7

"But one of the
descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he
will come against {their} army and enter the fortress of
the king of the North, and he will deal with them and
display {great} strength. NASB

Dan
11:8

"Also their gods with
their metal images {and} their precious vessels of
silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt,
and he on his part will refrain from {attacking} the
king of the North for {some} years.
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Dan
11:9

"Then the latter will
enter the realm of the king of the South, but will
return to his {own} land. NASB

Verses 7-9 Prophecy what will happen under the next
King of the South & North. In 246 BC, Ptolemy III (246-221BC) invaded the
empire of Seleucus II (246-226 BC) Jerome describe this invasion on page 123
of his commentary on Daniel.

He (Ptolemy III)
came up with a great army and advanced into the province (706)
of the king of the North, that is Seleucus Callinicus, who
together with his mother Laodice was ruling in Syria, and abused
them, and not only did he seize Syria but also took Cilicia and
the remoter regions beyond the Euphrates and nearly all of Asia
as well. And then, when he heard that a rebellion was afoot in
Egypt, he ravaged the kingdom of Seleucus and carried off as
booty forty thousand talents of silver, and also precious
vessels and images of the gods to the amount of two and a half
thousand. Among them were the same images which Cambyses had
brought to Persia at the time when he conquered Egypt. The
Egyptian people were indeed devoted to idolatry, for when he had
brought back their gods to them after so many years, they called
him Euergetes (Benefactor). And he himself retained possession
of Syria, but he handed over Cilicia to his friend, Antiochus,
that he might govern it, and the provinces beyond the Euphrates
he handed over to Xanthippus, another general.

Verse 9 prophecies that Seleucus II would invade Egypt
but would not be successful. This was answered in 240 BC when Seleucus II
invaded Egypt but lost & had to return to his own land in shame.